Kirby: Squeak Squad (DS)
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| Release Dates |  | 12/4/06 |  | 11/2/06 |  | 06/22/07 |  | TBA |
Kirby: Squeak Squad is a side scrolling platform game where the player takes the role of Kirby in a new adventure to save Dream Land. The story begins with Kirby set to eat a strawberry shortcake at a picnic when out of no where someone steals the cake. Kirby deducts that it his arch-nemesis King Dedede who has stolen the cake and Kirby sets off to deliver justice. However, his plan is then complicated by a band of treasure hunting thieves called the Squeak Squad.
The player controls Kirby using the d-pad instead of the stylus. The A button jumps and the B button has Kirby inhaling his enemies. When Kirby eats an enemy, he gains a special ability. For the first time, Kirbys abilities now interact with the environment, for example the ice ability can allow Kirby to freeze water. Kirby can also store enemies in his stomach to save the ability for later which are then accessed on the touch screen. There are over 25 abilities in the game and they can be combined for even more powerful abilities.
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Critical Reception: Nintendo's Kirby Squeak Squad
gamasutra.com - December 13, 2006
Submitted by zukaus (4) at 4:44AM PST on December 22, 2006
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Kirby coming to Europe on June 22
Eurogamer - May 24, 2007
Submitted by judge_khan (449) at 8:02AM PST on May 24, 2007
Nintendo has stamped a European release date of 22nd June on Kirby Mouse Attack.
It's a platform game for DS that does away with almost all of the fancy touch-screen input, instead falling back on more traditional d-pad controls. However, it will still make strong use of both screens and feature wireless multiplayer.
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Review: "If you like Kirby, you'll like this. There...
ArsTechnica:... - December 29, 2006
Submitted by zukaus (4) at 2:41AM PST on January 3, 2007
Review: "If you like Kirby, you'll like this. There are a few twists in the game, but overall this is a new Kirby adventure for your DS. No more, no less."
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IGN Review
Craig Harris - December 5, 2006
Submitted by Gaara42 (8) at 6:24PM PST on December 27, 2006
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3As a reminder, this title has just recently been released in Europe after a long wait and will be reflected in the upcoming sales charts.
Oddly enough, the title is only ranked at 133 on Amazon UK currently, but I imagine sales will be solid across the continent. That being said -- even if the title shocked and sold somewhat poorly, the price is still too low given the sales from the US and Japan alone IMO.[ Elite ] [ Level 19 ] [ Rank: 476 ]bids
5judge_khan posted on Kirby: Squeak Squad (DS) at 8:02AM PST on May 24, 2007. RE: Kirby coming to Europe on June 22Nintendo has stamped a European release date of 22nd June on Kirby Mouse Attack. It's a platform game for DS that does away with almost all of the fancy touch-screen input, instead falling back on more traditional d-pad controls. However, it will still make strong use of both screens and feature wireless multiplayer.[ Elite ] [ Level 19 ] [ Rank: 449 ]bids
6In Japan, Kirby:SS has re-entered the top 50 for the first time in a month (moving up to #42 and selling something like 8k during the week).
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=154771
This has an especially large signifigance because the week was a holiday (where software in general sells more).
The titles that recieve a sales boost so large that they actually move up the chart are ones with legs. Games like New SMB, Pokemon, Animal Crossing and Brain Training moved way up the chart along with Kirby.
This means that in Japan, Kirby will continue selling steadily, recieve a xmas/new years boost, and then continue to sell some more steadily.
So basically the 1.06M (of which only about 80k are still unsold - see my post below for link) that Nintendo has shipped to Japan will not be enough.
It will go on to sell about 1.25M. Which means worldwide it will sell about 2.7M. (assuming 1.5M in western markets like I did in my post below.)
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7Someone told me that my last post was difficult to understand. Let me try to be clear this time.
In Japan K:SS has already sold 1.06M to retailers.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2007/070427e.pdf
Although it is at 0.97M sold through, the weekly sales have slowed considerably, and thereīs a good chance that once the 1.06M are done selling, no more will be sold.
(see post #19)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=154255
In NA (where it came out a month later), only 0.54M have been sold to retailers - but it continues to sell very well. In March (its 4th month of release), it was the 5th best selling DS game (the 4th best, Mario Kart DS, was the 19th best selling game overall).
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6169937.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews
The president of Nintendo himself said that Brain Age is selling 10k/week in America, and it was the 8th best selling NDS game. So in March (5 weeks), K:SS sold >50k (a likely guess would be 65k - which is very good for a 4th month).
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/070427qa/02.html
Continued high sales are to be expected. All previous Kirby handheld platformers have sold >1M in America alone according to VGchartz (the last sold 1.12M). And this one is on track for about 1M.
So just between Japan and America it will sell about 2M.
And then there is Europe, where the game will soon be released. So this game should sell 2.5M.
And lucky for us, the next Nintendo report will definitely tell us exactly where itīs at (since itīs a worldwide million seller).
As for VGchartz, itīs generally accurate for old data where financial reports or official sales data can be used, but the new data is based on such a small sampling that it is currently terribly inaccurate. It is usefull for getting a general idea, but always stick to Media Create, NPD, and other reliable data sources where possible.
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